ABIT BD7 RAID BOARD SHUTS DOWN DURING FILE COPY

[Bill Koch]

I have a Abit BD7 raid board and have set up a mirrored
raid drive with 2 x 160 gb IDE drives, PIV 1.7. The raid
drive is not set up to be bootable. (I'm current on
patches for Windows 2000 professional, SP4). Mirror works
fine for small copies from another computer (using 100 mb
ethernet connection) for amounts < 50 mb +/-. However,
when I try to copy 3+ gb (or 400 meg or other large
amounts) from the other computer using drag and drop, the
copy starts, then the Abit computer shuts itself off
ungracefully. It has not shut down under any other
circumstance.

I've reviewed the bios section of the Abit site and did
not see a bios fix that addresses this issue.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

 

[nut cracker]

does anything appear in the event logs (system log) that might point to some
kind of driver failure, or hardware issue?

have you run your memory through the wringer and tested it? I have heard of
software based memory testers... you might want to look into that. i am
thinking its probably hardware based, and could be memory. when the system
tries to write to a certain memory space, there is an error, and that would
cause the system to tank, and reboot.

Check the logs and let us know the details of any errors that you see, right
before the eventlog service starts (in the logs).

NuTs